Dennis And Elizabeth Kucinich

Dennis And Elizabeth Kucinich, Elizabeth Jane Kucinich née Harper (born 22 October 1977) is director of public affairs for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, and wife of the U.S. Congressman and former Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich.
Born Elizabeth Jane Harper, she was brought up in North Ockendon in Havering. She attended Coopers’ Company and Coborn School in Cranham from 1989-96. According to her mother, as a girl Harper “was always into human rights and the environment and delivered a petition on animal rights to Parliament when she was just 14.” After leaving school she went to Agra, India to volunteer at one of Mother Teresa’s homes for India’s poorest children.

On her return to the UK she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religious Studies and Theology and Master of Arts degree in International Conflict Analysis (both from the University of Kent at Canterbury). The subject of her MA thesis was “Conflict Resolution in World Politics”.

In the course of her work with Zarlenga, she met Dennis Kucinich, who proposed to her during their second meeting and they married in 2005 in his native Cleveland, Ohio.

The Sunday Times noted that one of her heroines is Diana, Princess of Wales, partly for her bringing “compassion back into public life”.

Harper has her tongue pierced with a silver stud. Like her husband she is a vegan.